A Flower In The Storm | Vintage Cube Draft 

I love when a new draft begins with the sound of Luis laughing. Hearing the sound of a Lotus being opened is such a great way to start the day. May the Power 9 always bless us all!

The first time in history that lsv says he can't complain about opening power.

When will LSV recognize that Displacer Kitten is his spirit animal?

Opening a lotus every single time is actually really unlucky, as you get to have no complain equity!

Displacer kitten doing absolute work in this deck.

47:30 you can twister, fon ur own twister, and then tendrils for exact

Loved the comentary on that last game

Luis “I never open Power” Vargas 😉

Displacer Kitten FINALLY getting the love it deserves from LSV

Live it up. You're now due for a long Power drought!

Displacer MVP!

@730 "this deck needs tendrils (win con) we cant try to wheel it..."did you taking a new dietary supplement or is this a deepfake?

Love the addition of DIsrupt. It's such a rude card.

The kitten+jewel combo was just so clutch for this deck

Thassa's Oracle is best with Doomsday, but I think it's also pickable with an early Brain Freeze. It's not quite as necessary because Brain Freeze is a kill condition already, but it gives you game against Eldrazi and the like, and some decks are pretty good at tearing through their own library but don't consistently generate enough storm to make Brain Freeze a reliable kill. I won't take it over actual good stuff, but I'm willing to pick an Oracle in pack 1 if I start out storm but notice that stuff isn't wheeling, as a hedge against kill-less combo. I also once had a deck with Birgi/Horn of Harnfel where my kill condition was Horn, draw 7s, Lion's Eye, Oracle, but that's definitely a corner case. Edit: Just got to the Brain Freeze pick. At that point it basically has to be Oracle.

36:02 it says a lot about the Initiative as a mechanic that even after playing so much of it in cube, even LSV doesn't know that Throne of the Dead Three forces a shuffle lol. As always thank you so much for the daily cube content! Loving every second

Starting a Displacer Kitten Fan Club

As I said yesterday, I kind of believe that first picking a Lotus actually decreases LSV’s win percentage because it tempts him into “after all, why shouldn’t I?” storm. Let’s see what happens.

Can't believe you passed up the chance to go Lotus tribal in the first 3 picks: Black Lotus, Lotus Cobra, Lotus Field! So disappoint :(

At 1:10:03 I feel like you just High Tide off artifact mana into Time Spiral, skipping the Dynamo. Coveted Jewel is already a good flicker target and High Tide is worth about the same amount of mana with Turnabout for artifacts because of Candelabra. Is there something I'm missing?

I love how every draft LSV explains why he's passing kitten, and the times he does take kitten its insane

"that probably wasn't perfectly done"

Remember the last fresh pack pick of tendrils but chat went so nuts on how lucky LSV was that he didn’t even play it. Won with some jank instead. “If you draw your deck, make infinite mana, you’ll find a way to win…”

Is this cube sized so that the entire pool gets opened in an 8pod?

Marshall: "Storm is dead in modern cube." LSV: "Hold my beer."

1:03:00 lol, it's funny though. Looks like a haymaker waiting to go off.

I haven't watched this video in full (just put it on), but reading the title is me hoping we have the return of LSV forcing Storm like in the old CFB cube videos

I live for spicy storm brews piloted by LSV

Favorite lsv draft archetype is definitely storm, especially when high tide is involved, so this was an absolute treat for me to watch. Thanks!

1:09:25 Here you're supposed to go Vault+Lotus+High Tide THEN go for candle untapping FOUR lands and then you DO have enough to spiral even if the Jewel is countered. If played perfectly could have ended up casting mentor and tide and tendrils after for the win

I need to know the stakes of these drafts. Friendly banter and bragging rights just can't be enough!

The only thing I don’t understand is the white border Seething song 😂 Why not the mirrodin one? 😂

I've lost track of how many times LSV's "lets start with frantic search" led to a winning game state. Hasn't happened in a while, but it's always fun when it does.

I love these videos. I've learned a lot from you playing these insane storm decks. Do you withdraw your previous statement about kitten? It's insane in the broken decks.

Fantastic deck once again! No cantrips/tutors but the draws were favorable this time and led to some insane plays! There´s alot of enyojment watching you combo out againt average players in the mtgo cues but seeing you do it against the best vintagecubers in the world is on a whole different level! Good games :)

This was a super fun draft. Thank you for being awesome and giving us this storm content.

"I wouldn't put a 0-mana 2/1 in my deck"... life lesson right there!

It's so wholesome to see Storm finally get its day again

This deck was super cool, displacer kitten is something that makes coveted jewel absolutely nuts.

G1M2 you mentioned that don't want to get Wandering Emperor, but your teammate had both wandering and resto, so no big deal in the end but most likely a missed attack there

hey luis. is it possible to link your cube in the description? thx in advance

Lsv doing this draft right after the pod where Marshall spent the whole time bemoaning the death of storm is awesome lol

Hey LSV, does Matt Nass play Vintage Cube?

I think this is my first time watching Comet hit the board and still be not enough.

The cat's out of the bag.

Displacer Kitten was an absolute all star. Wow

1:02:14 "if he had re-drawn force of will, I was dead" actually that wasn't even true, look back at the game state at 1:01:46, you were going to have enough mana to cast yawg will, then RE-CAST coveted jewel from your graveyard. You were about to untap grim monolith, and you still had 1 black mana available from watery grave for yawg will which would get you a second grim monolith untap. That game was in the bag and you didn't even realize it lmao

The more Kitten is disrespected in drafts and comments, the more it wins games

Lsv forgot his raincoat for this one!!! The definition of “you got vintaged”

LSV drafting storm? Just like the good old days!

I see the argument for go to the face with comet but he really should have killed Jace there. The question there for boros is "how can I lose this game". One way is sneak with double red (but he only had one) and the other is a discard outlet, a giant monster and a reanimation spell. If I'm boros and I'm certain that with 5 to the face I'm gonna kill them the next turn then I go for it, otherwise I kill the discard outlet.

This is the kind of deck I love, amazing to play and watch being played.

Poor Updraft Elemental cannot catch a break. That person spends 50 quid on every draft.

wow that extra final game was amazing thats why i love cube

Please put in Cad Bloom, Squandered Resources, Braingeyser or Prosperity

39:35 glad you saw that too :D

Anyone wants to join a group to play cube online?

1:10:57 could have gone manavault lotus cracked lotus for blue high tide use manavault and blue to untap all island floating blue and arti mana for jewel and have 6 mana for timespiral using hightide so you would untap 8 mana

Somebody's stream sniping you

Has updraft 0-3d every draft on the channel so far?😅

I think when troll cast brainsorm at 1:21:07 he forgot LSV had a Narsett in play...

Still bummed that LSV didn't 3-0 from yesterday's lotus and time walk deck.

I'm confused, in the last game why didn't Luis lose to brain freeze?

Add tidebinder to cube please 😢

GRUUL WANT STONE RAIN IN CUBE

Worlds goodest cat monster

That last game was WILD

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storm storm storm!

memory jar always feels bad when i cast it

Let's see if he can break the Lotus curse.

Day 2 of asking Luis for a dog draft

Commenting for the algo boost.

Temple Garden?!? 😆

Insane deck!

Jewels Meow

1pm and time for another draft

11am and time for another draft

4am and time for another draft

Hey LSV, you know there's a setting to auto turn on "no possible play yield all" automatically at the beginning of every round right?

Haven't seen a storm draft in quiet a while. although nothing beats when you stormed into siege gang goblin and seiged the win. Side note: What's the over/under of getting a Cheon co-drafter in one of these videos? That would be such a blast. I really enjoyed catching his stream.

Classic storm is the most entertaining archetype to watch!

Day 3 of advocating for the inclusion of [[Stifle]] in the LSV cube, or an explanation of why it's not good enough for the cube.

you upload so fast might as well take out the middle man and stream the games!!

First comment

I think cube would be better if everybody was offered the exact same 15 sideboard cards + your regular sideboard. And you can pick TWO out of the 15 cards everybody is offered for game 2-3. This would make it so unfair decks would have to work a little bit harder. Think that would be a great addition to how cube functions and help level the playing field.

I watch these videos daily and it certainly feels like you get flooded frequently.

Thanks for all the entertaining vids, Luis!